Hartmut Steinecke (12 March 1940 – 25 January 2020
Traueranzeige Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hartmut Steinecke
FAZ, 29 January 2020) was a German literary critic
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and university lecturer
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.
Life
Born in Nürnberg
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, Steinecke studied history and philosophy at the Universität des Saarlandes
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and the University of Bonn
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, where he received his doctorate
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in 1966 with a thesis
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about Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: '' The Sleepwalkers'' (''Die Schlafwandler,'' 1930–32) and ''The Death of Virgil'' (''Der Tod des Vergil,'' 1945).
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. From 1967 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the German Department of the University of Bonn, where he habilitated
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in 1973 with a thesis on Romantic theory and criticism in Germany. In 1974 he became professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Paderborn
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. He taught there until his retirement in 2005.
Between 1966 and 2008 he was repeatedly visiting professor
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at various North American universities, including Dartmouth College
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(1978), Cornell (1981), University of Kansas
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, Lawrence (1984), University of Michigan
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, Ann Arbor (1987), University of Budapest
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(1990), Washington University in St. Louis
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(1993), University of Graz
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History
The unive ...
(1994, 1998, 2003, 2007); Ohio State University
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, Columbus (2008).
In 1992 he founded the Archive in Paderborn. In 2002 Steinecke was accepted into the . He was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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The "Austrian D ...
. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Timișoara, Romania (2002) and the University of Graz (2005).
Hartmut died in Paderborn
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at the age of 79.
Publications
Author
* ''Hermann Broch und der polyhistorische Roman. Studien zur Theorie und Technik eines Romantyps der Moderne''. Bonn 1968 (Diss. Bonn 1966)
* ''Romantheorie und Romankritik in Deutschland. Die Entwicklung des Gattungsverständnisses von der Scott-Rezeption bis zum programmatischen Realismus''. 2 vol.. Stuttgart 1975–1976. (Habilschr. Bonn 1973)
* ''Romanpoetik von Goethe bis Thomas Mann. Entwicklungen und Probleme der "demokratischen Kunstform" in Deutschland''. Munich 1987. .
* ''Erfahrung und Erfindung. Interpretationen zum deutschen Roman vom Barock bis zur Moderne''. Heidelberg 1992. .
* ''Unterhaltsamkeit und Artistik. Neue Schreibarten in der deutschen Literatur von Hoffmann bis Heine''. Bielefeld 1998. .
* ''Von Lenau bis Broch. Studien zur österreichischen Literatur – von außen betrachtet''. Tübingen / Basel 2002. .
* ''Die Kunst der Fantasie. E.T.A. Hoffmanns Leben und Werk''. Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2004. .
* ''Literatur als Gedächtnis der Shoah. Deutschsprachige jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller der "zweiten Generation"''. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005. .
* ''Heinrich Heine im Dritten Reich und im Exil''. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008.
* ''"Das Gepräge des Außerordentlichen". Heinrich Heine liest E.T.A. Hoffmann''. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2015. .
* ''"Um zu erleben, was Geschichte ist, muss man Jude sein". Jenni Aloni – eine deutsch-jüdische Schriftstellerin''. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2017. .
* ''Nachruf auf Walter Hinck in der Sitzung der Klasse für Geisteswissenschaften am 10. Februar 2016''. In ''Jahrbuch Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften'' (2017),
online
Editor
* ''Literaturkritik des Jungen Deutschland : Entwicklungen – Tendenzen – Texte''. Berlin 1982. .
* Jenny Aloni: ''Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben''. Vol 1–10. Paderborn 1990–1997.
* ''Heine und die Nachwelt. Geschichte seiner Wirkung in den deutschsprachigen Ländern''. Vol. 1–3. Berlin 2006–2011.
External links
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* ttp://www.germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de/institutslisten/files/de/01100_de/1158_de.html Eintrag im Germanistenverzeichnis
References
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Literary scholars
Academic staff of Paderborn University
Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
1940 births
2020 deaths
Writers from Nuremberg
University of Bonn alumni
Dartmouth College faculty
Cornell University faculty
University of Kansas faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Academic staff of Eötvös Loránd University
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
Academic staff of the University of Graz
Ohio State University faculty